We did it! On 24 April 2012, the GEO Parents’ Caucus reached a tentative agreement with university administrators on issues related to the child care…

Attacks on Michigan workers, including GSRAs at the University of Michigan, were featured on the Rachel Maddow Show.  Rachel calls us “one of Michigan’s most…

The GEO Parents Caucus’s campaign to improve UM’s family friendliness is getting down to the wire – we need YOUR help!  Since we are making…

Text: Spring 2012 Hi I’m a graduate employee at the University of Michigan and I’m a member of GEO. I’m Katie and I’m a member…

Our final General Membership Meeting of the semester will be next Wednesday, April 4th at 6:30pm in the Rackham Amphitheater (4th Floor). RSVP on Facebook…

More national coverage: Kaustuv Basu, a reporter for Insider HigherEd, just posted this story about what happened here in Michigan when GSRAs tried to get…

Click on the link below and tell Governor Snyder to veto SB 971. http://act.aflcio.org/c/172/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=3829

Today (2/22/12) a law was passed in the Michigan State Senate that seeks to eliminate the collective bargaining rights of Graduate Student Researchers Assistants.  The…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE News From Graduate Employees Organization Contact: Liz Rodrigues  commchair@geo3550.org Jim McAsey jim.mcasey@geo3550.org Phone (office): (734) 995-0221 Graduate Employees Testify Against Latest Republican Attacks on…

For Immediate Release: Thursday, 16 February 2012 Contact: GEO Staff Organizer Jim McAsey; jim.mcasey@geo3550.org  Phone (office): (734) 995-0221 GEO Communications Chair Liz DeLisle Rodrigues; commchair@geo3550.org       GEO responds…

Last year GSIs and GSSAs, through our labor union, negotiated a new contract with the University that covers our wages, benefits, and working conditions (see…

Lisa Klein, PhD, Professor of Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Program Director at Rutgers University 1.         In general, what is the impact of the…

Text: Hi, I’m Rob Gillezeau, and I am a former GSRA, GSI, and fellowship holder in the Economics Department at the University of Michigan. I…

We were disappointed when, on Thursday, a professor of engineering established a UM website petitioning the University Regents not to recognize Graduate Student Research Assistants…

Text: Hi, I’m Christie Toth and I’m a Graduate Student Research Assistant at the Sweetland Center for Writing at the University of Michigan. I support…

On Thursday, January 19, in response to national news coverage of a GEO press conference at which Jennifer Dibbern described her termination from the Materials…

Media Advisory For Immediate Release Friday 1/20/12 Contact: Mellisa Sanders - Graduate Employees’ Organization Parents’ Caucus Chair - melissa.r.sanders@gmail.com Jim McAsey – Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO) Staff…

Send an email to UM administrators to protest the illegal firing of a GSRA for union organizing. Targets:  President Mary Sue Coleman, Provost Phil Hanlon,…

Our press conference today made the newspapers and TV news around the state, and it has even appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education.  We…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Liz Rodrigues, GSI in English Language & Literature GEO Communications Chair email: commchair@geo3550.org Jim McAsey GEO Staff Organizer Jim.McAsey@geo3550.org 734-995-0221 office GSRA…

Media Advisory For Immediate Release: Friday, January 13, 2012 Contact: GEO Staff Organizer Jim McAsey; jim.mcasey@geo3550.org, 734-995-0221 GEO Communications Chair Liz DeLisle Rodrigues; commchair@geo3550.org GEO…

Media Advisory For Immediate Release Friday 12/16/11 Contact: Mellisa Sanders - Graduate Employees’ Organization Parents’ Caucus Chair - melissa.r.sanders@gmail.com  Jim McAsey – Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO) Staff…